SAIL's Best Boats Archives

2022 SAIL Best Boat Nominees

August 15th, 2021

by SAIL editors Turns out it takes more than a pandemic to keep sailors, naval architects, and boatbuilders down. It

January 6th, 2021

by SAIL editors The past year has been a strange and tragic one, to say the least. A funny thing

November 4th, 2020

by SAIL editors Thanks to COVID-19, 2020 has been a year like no other. Human nature being what it is,

December 5th, 2019

Eleven of the nominees for SAIL Magazine’s 2020 Best Boats Awards have been advanced as winners for this annual recognition.

September 12th, 2019

Bring on the monohulls! In a world increasingly given over to multihull sailing, SAIL magazine’s “Best Boats” class of 2020

November 14th, 2018

Some years ago, the book Aak to Zumbra catalogued – and celebrated – the incredible diversity of watercraft that has

September 7th, 2018

by SAIL editors As we approach the upcoming fall boat shows, perhaps the best word to describe the boatbuilding industry’s

November 11th, 2017

SAIL Magazine has announced the winners of SAIL’s 2018 Best Boats Awards. If there’s one word that sums up the

November 14th, 2016

SAIL Magazine has announced the winners of SAIL’s 2017 Best Boats Awards. After a flurry of radical innovations in recent

September 27th, 2016

After racing ahead for some time at breakneck speed, the boatbuilding industry seems to have entered a period of refinement—which